Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surveyed the U.S. political landscape through a Democratic lens and liked what he saw. In the White House was a lame-duck Republican President, unbeatable in the past but barred by the Constitution from running again in 1960. Going up to Capitol Hill in January is a Congress dominated by Democrats as it has not been since 1937. There seemed a good chance that the strong Democratic winds of 1958 might blow at gale force in 1960, carrying The Man Who all the way to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue...
...campaign hard, and he did win big, by a near-record 402,000 votes over a nice Republican lady. That consolidated his position as a Democratic hopeful...
...During the 1958 campaign alone he traveled 25,000 miles in 19 states. Between times he managed to cover Massachusetts like a quilt, post volunteer "secretaries" in more than 300 of the state's 351 cities and towns, and win a spectacular 870,000-vote plurality over hapless Republican Vincent Celeste (Kennedy lost $10 to a campaign worker by betting that he could not break...
Meyner's understanding of the delicate and tricky business of politics has converted New Jersey, for decades a Republican stronghold, into a Democratic state. This year Meyner gained prestige when his protege, former Congressman Harrison A. Williams, won by 89,000 votes against rugged Republican opposition and became U.S. Senator. Moreover, for the first time since 1937, the New Jersey general assembly went Democratic...
California's Pat Brown is happily aware of the national prominence into which he was catapulted by his 1,012,000-majority victory over Republican Bill Knowland for Governor. Last week, at La Quinta, a resort about 20 miles southeast of Palm Springs. Brown, dressed in swimming trunks and a flowered sports shirt, sat basking in the desert sun and in a delightful dilemma: whether to hew sternly to a campaign pledge to serve his full four-year term as Governor or to sound like an oracle when people talk about him for the Democratic national ticket...